Gab is Back in the Headlines and Off the Web

On the Media

• Episode: Gab is Back in the Headlines and Off the Web
• Website: On the Media
• Feed URL: http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia
• Duration: 00:11:47
• Published: 2018-10-30 17:00

The social media website Gab has faced sanction and scorn in the days since one of its active users killed 11 members of Pittsburgh's Jewish community. Gab had, for the past few years, made itself out as a "free speech" harbor, safe from the intellectual strictures of the mainstream web. That is to say, it attracted — and very rarely rejected — hordes of neo-nazis, anti-PC provocateurs and right-wing trolls. 

When Brooke interviewed Gab's then-COO Utsav Sanduja last fall, the company was in the midst of an anti-trust lawsuit against Google, claiming the the tech titan had wielded its monopoly power to silence a competitor. Brooke spoke with Sanduja about that lawsuit — and about his website's frequently deplorable content.